BELGIAN DEPORTATIONS

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 96, 23 April 1917, Page 7

BELGIAN DEPORTATIONS

Yon hindenburg responsible.

AMERICAN CONSUL'S INDICTMENT.

(Received April 23, 8.20 a.m.)

WASHINGTON, 22nd April.

Mr. Brand Whitlock (American Consul), ill a report on the Belgian deportations, says that evidence stamps the deed as one of the foulest in history. The evidence suggests that yon Hindenburg was responsible for the., deportations. Hindenburg criticised yon Biasing's rule as mild, aiid they quarrelled/ Thereafter the reign of terror began by the separating of families. The . barbarities of the brutal Uhlans towards the hungry and shivering people made a distressing scene. The Germans pfoved that their capacity for blundering equals that of their cruelty. They have impressed on the- hearts of the Belgians indelibly what German methods meannot atrocities committed in the. heat of passion, ill the first lust, for war, but coldly planned, studiously matured, and deliberately and systematically executed deeds, so cruel and monstrous that even Gorman officers ate now ashamed.

AMSTERDAM, 20th April. The Berlin Tageblatt says that most of the measures during General yon Bissing's Governorship in Belgitim rhich created wide-world protest were carried out under instructions from the Kaiser's headquarters, despite yon Bissing's efforts to prevent them.